The Aesthetics Research Centre invites you to a research seminar with:<\/p>\n
Dr. Vid Simoniti, Churchill College, University of Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2018Political Thought in Contemporary Art\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Wednesday 23rd<\/sup> May 2018 at 5pm in Keynes Seminar Room 1, University of Kent<\/strong><\/p>\n Political Thought in Contemporary Art<\/p>\n Much of contemporary visual art presents us with a specific political commitment.<\/p>\n Indeed, of all the arts today, visual art comments on pressing political issues most explicitly: on issues such as the deterioration of the environment (e.g. Mark Dion, Agnes Denes),<\/p>\n racism (e.g. Adrian Piper, Kara Walker), or the refugee crisis (e.g. Ai Weiwei, Wolfgang Tillmans). However, when do political messages in art hit home, and when do such works<\/p>\n merely rehearse public pieties? Or, to put the question more philosophically: can art contribute something unique to political discourse, or does it at best reflect what politicians,<\/p>\n pundits and philosophers come up with independently? Here I argue that art can indeed contribute something indispensable to political discourse.<\/p>\n My defence requires an update of some of the accepted tenets of aesthetic cognitivism (the view that art is a source of knowledge), but I hope to make these revisions plausible.<\/p>\n Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m the inaugural Jeffrey Rubinoff Junior Research Fellow at\u00a0Churchill College, University of Cambridge<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n \u200bMy academic work is in contemporary aesthetics, especially on the question of how art can bring about social and political change. I publish both in Philosophy and in History of Art venues, and occasionally collaborate on art projects. Topics of research include philosophy of art, history of American conceptual art, biotechnological art and, increasingly, art in the digital age.<\/p>\n \u200bAt Cambridge, I\u2019m also a visiting lecturer in both\u00a0History of Art<\/a><\/u>\u00a0and\u00a0Philosophy\u00a0<\/a><\/u>faculties. Before coming to Cambridge, I obtained my D.Phil. (doctorate) at the University of Oxford in 2015.<\/p>\n Everyone is welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Aesthetics Research Centre invites you to a research seminar with: Dr. Vid Simoniti, Churchill College, University of Cambridge \u2018Political Thought in Contemporary Art\u2019 Wednesday … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52103,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[219075,25563,112,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/1652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}